Private Space

China and Russia are set to sign a milestone agreement on joint space exploration from 2018 to 2022, according to the official People’s Daily online news service. The deal is expected to be signed this October and will bring significant benefits…

Along with many other space enthusiasts, we’ve been waiting — forever, it seems — for our opportunity to stay at a hotel on the Moon, whether it’s a Ritz-Carlton, Holiday Inn or Motel 6. How far back does the hope…

From GQ Magazine UK, background on German automaker Audi’s plans for a mission to the Moon: Audi has officially gone interplanetary. Well, sort of. This is the brand’s very own lunar rover, which it will send to to the moon….

Luna Society International has pledged financial support, potentially hundreds of millions of dollars, toward a program to return humans to the Moon in the next decade. Through memberships in the Luna Society, the organization intends to raise at least $100-million (USD), with…

Japan’s Hakuto team, competing for the Google Lunar X Prize, has put its Moon rover prototypes through their paces at the Tottori Sand Dunes on Sept. 27 ahead of the competition, which seeks to complete a robotic moon mission by the end of…

We are Luna Society International, and we believe it’s time to stop talking about the Moon — it’s time that we return humans to the Moon. It’s time that we, the people, go back to Moon. It’s time that we…

From the New York Times: This time, Jeffrey P. Bezos’s rocket went up — and it came down in one piece. Mr. Bezos, the founder of Amazon, has been investing some of his wealth in space dreams, establishing a rocket…